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Monday, 5 April 2010

Easter crafts


Ojos de Dios we weaved up last week using our handspun wool. Sol spent a long time weaving up the big one and heis so proud of it. The yellow is dyed with nettles, orange with beetroot and the green and lilac with food dye.



I have been using up my stash of that same wool to knit up woollen baby nappy wraps. I have made such a huge stash of these. I used the Ottobre pattern which is so, so easy. Same pattern I used with your beautiful wool, Suzanne. This babe will have one cosy little bottom.



Easter tree. Denise, can you see the special mama on her nest. Noah adores her! The boys made little Easter clay bowls, (I helped Noah and Leo with theirs) and they painted them to hold little treasures. They really love modelling with clay.



Sweet little Easter garden the boys made. They planted cress in egg shells and added clay characters. Sol chose to make an Easter hare, Leo made an orange Brer Rabbit and at Noah's request I made him a mama hen and babies and he painted them. There were little chocolate eggs scattered about their garden on Easter morning and the cress has grown beautifully now. They really enjoyed creating this little garden.

6 comments:

  1. Oh easter does look beautiful...happy days. So sweet and yes the garden looks gorgeous...xx

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  2. Wow! So amazing!!! everything looks so beautiful :)

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  3. What beautiful easter celebrations :)

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  4. Wow ... how creative! So much inspiration in this post :)

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  5. Your Easter creations are so beautiful! I thought about doing little god's eyes to hang on our easter tree, perhaps next year...

    Love your knitted wraps, great colors.

    Wishing you many wonderful blessings as you welcome your little one into your home!

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  6. Hello, thanks for visiting my blog - lovely to discover another lovely blog and someone who spins wool too, I find it so relaxing and great fun. Love your spun wool creations above. Lovely Easter celebrations.

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